Sissy

Aisha Dee is excellent as a twenty-something self-help social media infuencer who has some major personal isues.

Through flashbacks, we see Sissy(or Cecilia) as a child playing with her best friends as they proclaim a life long allegiance to each other.

They met years later and Sissy is invited to a magnificent house in the middle of nowhere. The host has had an unpleasant encounter with Sissy, which leads to bad feelings among the house guests.

The film is a bit of a slow burn with a sometimes funny backdrop with a message on our current fascination with the world of cyberspace "friendships" which are, of course, not real life.

Ms. Dee is convincing as the unstable young lady and she makes the movie well wort watching.

You bump into a friend from long ago, she invites you to her hen night and you go, then a bachelorette weekend, it's so nice that you can spend, some time together, to reacquaint, go with the flow. Alas the place where you are staying has an another, a person from your past who caused a spot of bother, and there's clearly still a trace, from the scar that's on her face, of the grudge that she finds difficult to smother. Soon things start to go off course and quite awry, as tensions rise no matter how you try, to bury your resentment, pull away from hobbled descent and wash the tears from streaming, prying, crying eyes.

Cecilia finds catching up with old school acquaintances a little more challenging than she'd imagined, but with her rope of invincibility she does her best to pull through.

Great performances and a genuinely original take on an often encountered theme.

There has been a trend for horror movies with a message over the last few years and some of them have left me cold. The message part often means that the horror aspect is down played so as not to offend a broader audience. Luckily, this is not the case with Sissy.

This film addresses issues like mental health and social media influencers but still has a cracking horror movie at its heart. It borders on horror-comedy at times - but, if you're a gore hound - there's PLENTY for you here. I wasn't expecting a lot from this movie but it was nicely set up, the acting was good, the blood was splurting and, overall, it was an enjoyable 82 minutes.

Like most film's I go in blind I don't read the synopsis and don't watch the trailers so either a film's going to blow or you're gonna find a diamond in the rough.

Now obviously this is I'm assuming a largely unheard of film as at the time of writing this review it only has 70 other user reviews which is very low but I'm finding quite a few unexpected lil gems on shudder recently especially being new to the service. So when I turned on this film I had no idea what to expect.

Obviously it's and I'm guessing here an Australian indie low budget film and after the first half hour the jigsaw peices start too fall into place.

I read all the reviews on here and for those saying it's not a stereotypical horror I'd probably agree I would put it into the black or dark comedy pigeonhole but I'm pretty sure that still falls under the umbrella genre of horror especially with the gore which I was not expecting at all but still pleasantly shocked and amused by.

Again going into this film not knowing what to expect I was very surprised and entertained too which imo is the whole point of watching entertainment.

With people giving this 1's and 2 star reviews they day taste is subjective but cmon I've seen movies that were on that level and this isn't one of them if I was more cynical and scrutinised and picked holes in the film I'd probably give it a 6.8 but seeing how surprised I was by how entertaining the main character was. Well for me she stole the show for me and just how decent the film was in general I decided to give it an 8 but that's my score imo this films a solid 6.5/7 and for a horror that's good and for black comedy that's even better.

Watch it if you like dark comedies I'd say to watch it and if u like horror films I'd say to watch it too. My only gripe would be after you find out after 45 mins worth of film you can probably figure out how it's gonna go down but that's still a small gripe to have especially being a shudder original and especially seeing as 90% of what Hollywood churns out these days is actual garbage well deserving of 1 and 2 star reviews.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and would recommend but check it out for yourself and see what u think.

I liked this movie more than I thought that I would. I was very shocked at how good it was do to the fact that the beginning was a little slow in my opinion. I was definitely rooting for Sissy in this movie and understood why she did what she did. I don't agree with her actions and I personally would not have done any of the things she did in this movie but I definitely understand why she did it. I have seen women with YouTube videos like the ones shown in this movie and it makes me think or wonder how many women could be like Sissy(promoting self love, security and positivity) but are in fact insecure themselves!!! Lol.